'A poet is a person who lives and thinks in a certain way. A poet doesn't necessarily write poems. It is simply an attitude, and there are a great many more poets around than meet the eye. I think about one person in 20 is perhaps a poet. The ones who are not poets expect something of what they think is poetry, which I don't propose to give them. What I write is for people to understand who are on the same, as they say, wavelength as myself. I don't write for an audience at all really: I write for myself. But the audience is presumably there.'
http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/WWI/influence/graves.html
4 Kommentare:
Nice, thanks for sharing.
I wrote my dissertation on his works, " From Apotheosis to Apocoloycntosis" My Latin teacher gave me the great title.
Great post, we think alike. I did a post on Graves in September http://moderncavalier.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-poetry.html
B&P: that's amazing, and: that title reminds me of my school-days, too when we read Seneca's satire!
White Horse: super, will look into it!
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